The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Հատոր 3J. Murray, 1784 |
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... shall re- folve , he must not alter his refolution , nor withdraw his hand from that enterprise , until he hath brought it to a fortunate conclufion . THE FIFTH is the fpirit of command . For whatever command he giveth , it is neceffary ...
... shall re- folve , he must not alter his refolution , nor withdraw his hand from that enterprise , until he hath brought it to a fortunate conclufion . THE FIFTH is the fpirit of command . For whatever command he giveth , it is neceffary ...
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... shall attempt to present our Readers with the most important of them . Dr. Berkeley was born March 12 , 1684 , at Kilcrin , near Thomas - town ; and at the age of fifteen was admitted a penfioner of Trinity College , Dublin . The first ...
... shall attempt to present our Readers with the most important of them . Dr. Berkeley was born March 12 , 1684 , at Kilcrin , near Thomas - town ; and at the age of fifteen was admitted a penfioner of Trinity College , Dublin . The first ...
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... shall fubjoin one story more . 6 A jolly Predicant Friar , who laid a wager he would make one . half of his Congregation laugh , and the other cry . As for making his hearers cry , it was what he had often fucceeded in doing , being a ...
... shall fubjoin one story more . 6 A jolly Predicant Friar , who laid a wager he would make one . half of his Congregation laugh , and the other cry . As for making his hearers cry , it was what he had often fucceeded in doing , being a ...
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... SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN . " Hamlet , a & ti . fc . 4 . To the life of Sir William Blackftone , this Author has fubjoined a prolix catalogue of all his writings ; from which it appears that this learned and ingenious lawyer ...
... SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN . " Hamlet , a & ti . fc . 4 . To the life of Sir William Blackftone , this Author has fubjoined a prolix catalogue of all his writings ; from which it appears that this learned and ingenious lawyer ...
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... shall translate what he fays of a particular description of In- dian females . " The Indian dancing girls are almost the only females of thofe countries that learn to read , write , fing , dance , and play upon mufical inftruments ...
... shall translate what he fays of a particular description of In- dian females . " The Indian dancing girls are almost the only females of thofe countries that learn to read , write , fing , dance , and play upon mufical inftruments ...
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Էջ 336 - I delight in the Law of God after the inward Man. But I fee another Law in my Members, warring againft the Law of my Mind, and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of Sin, which is in my Members.
Էջ 337 - Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness ; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace : Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God...
Էջ 165 - By the latter end of July, all the lower parts of Bengal, contiguous to the Ganges and Burrampooter, are overflowed, and form an inundation of more than a hundred miles in width ; nothing appearing but villages and trees, excepting very rarely, the top of an elevated spot (the artificial mound of some deserted village) appearing like an island.
Էջ 169 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
Էջ 229 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, 'Your son did thus and thus; Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas...
Էջ 337 - Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withftand in the evil day, and having done all, to ftand.
Էջ 172 - ... him for a model ; and his own is made only a little better, by his having a few more materials ; of which he was not a better collator than the other, nor did he excel him in use of them...
Էջ 117 - He could never be brought to. pay bills without much following and importunity ; nor then if there appeared any chance of wearying them out. — A paviour, after long and fruitless attempts, caught him just getting out of his chariot at his own door, in Bloomsbury-square, and set upon him.
Էջ 251 - He forgave all his enemies, even the chief instruments of his death; but exhorted them and the whole nation to return to the ways of peace, by paying obedience to their lawful sovereign, his son and successor. When he was preparing himself for the block, bishop Juxon called to him: "There is, sir, but one stage more, which though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one.
Էջ 251 - Though innocent towards his people, he acknowledged the equity of his execution in the eyes...